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Tag Archives: Research and Innovation
Research and Innovation Across the NHS and Academia (BBC News / Academy of Medical Sciences)
Summary The Academy of Medical Sciences has produced a report on the benefits of increasing / improving research and innovation in healthcare. Concerns are raised about the effects of increasing time and work-pressure constraints reducing the availability of “research active” … Continue reading →
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Tagged Academia-NHS Partnerships, Academic Champions, Academic Health Science Centres, Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Academy of Medical Sciences, Academy of Medical Sciences’ Future Leaders in Innovation Enterprise and Research (FLIER) Scheme, Accelerating Innovation, Accelerating Translation of Research Into Patient Benefit and Population Health, Barriers to Innovation, Barriers to Innovation: Excessive Work Pressures, Barriers to Innovation: Shortage of Staff Time, BBC Health News, Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) Research Performance Indicators, Collaboration, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans of the United Kingdom (COPMeD), Council of Deans of Health Student Leadership Programme, Dedicated Research Time, Dedicated Research Time: Research-Active NHS Staff, Developing Research Skills, Health and Care Research Wales’s Delivery Framework, Heath and Care Research Wales (HCRW) Clinical Research Time Award, Honorary Titles, Imperial College Joint Research Office (ICJRO), INSPIRE Programme, Integrated Academic Training Pathway for Medical Trainees, Integrating Research Across Academia and the NHS, Investment in Future Patient Care Improvement, King’s Fund Clinical Leadership Schemes, King’s Health Partners (KHP), Liverpool Health Partners Single Point of Access to Research and Knowledge (SPARK), MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnerships (CARPs), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Newcastle Joint Research Office (NJRO), NHS 70: 70 Senior Nurse and Midwife Research Leader Programme, NHS Pressures: Potential Adverse Research Impact, NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Career Researcher Fellowships, NHS-Academia Research Interface, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowships (ACFs) in Primary Care, NIHR Clinical Research Network, NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN), NIHR In Practice Fellowships (IPFs), Participation in Research, Participation in Research Studies, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient Participation in Research, Postgraduate Training: Research Activity, Postgraduate Training: Research Skills, Primary Care Research Incentive Scheme (PiCRIS), Professor Sir Robert Lechler: President of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Public Participation in Research, Research and Development, Research and Development: Joint R&D Offices, Research and Innovation, Research Capacity Building Collaboration (RCBC) Wales, Research Integration Across NHS and Academia: Case Studies, Research Metrics, Research Skills: Undergraduate Curricula, Research-Active NHS Staff, Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme, Shape Of Training Review, Supporting Research and Innovation, University College London Hospital and University College London Joint Research Office (UCLH/UCLJRO), University of Glasgow and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) Health Board, University of Oxford-Oxford University Hospitals Joint Research Office (OU-OUH JRO), University of Sheffield Clinical Research and Innovation Office (CRIO), Wales Clinical Academic Track
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Plans for Meeting the Dementia Challenge by 2020 (DHSC)
Summary The Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 (2015) involved over 50 commitments for making England the best place in the world for dementia care, research and public dementia awareness in general. Feedback was subsequently collected, during 2018, concerning developments … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Achieving Dementia Friendly Acute care, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK), Alzheimer’s Society Connecting Communities Project, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Campaigns, Behavioural Risk Factors, Behavioural Risk Factors and Dementia, Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities (UK), Building Dementia Friendly Communities, Burden of Dementia, Care and Compassion, Care at Home, Care Plan Template for Dementia, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Challenge by 2020: National Partners and Stakeholders, Challenge on Dementia 2020, Challenge on Dementia 2020 Implementation Plan, Citizen Participation, Civil Service Learning, Collaboration, Collaborative Projects, Collaborative Research, Collaborative Working, Commitment to Carers (NHS England), Community Participation, Compassionate Care, Connecting Communities, Connecting Communities Initiative, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Creating Dementia Friendly Hospitals, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Dementia 2020 Challenge: 2018 Review Phase 1 (DHSC), Dementia 2020 Challenge: 2019 Progress Review - Phase 1 (2019), Dementia 2020 Citizens’ Panel, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia Advisers, Dementia Advisor, Dementia Advisor Service, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Awareness and Social Action, Dementia Awareness Training, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Consortium, Dementia Core Skills Education and Training Framework, Dementia Data and Metrics, Dementia Friendly Charters, Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends Campaign, Dementia Friends Champions, Dementia Friends Programme, Dementia Health and Care Champion Group, Dementia Intelligence Network (DIN), Dementia Metrics, Dementia Research, Dementia Research Funding, Dementia Research Institute, Dementia Research Roadmap for Prevention Diagnosis Intervention and Care by 2025 (Alzheimer’s Society), Dementia Risk Factors, Dementia Risk Reduction, Dementia Risk Reduction and Prevention, Dementia State of the Nation, Dementia Treatment and Care Pathway, Dementia UK, Dementia-Friendly Businesses, Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Employers, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Sectors, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Department of Health Dementia Challenge, Department of Health Dementia Challenge (2020), Diagnosis and Referral, Dignity in Dementia, Disease Modifying Treatment by 2025 (Aim), Disease-Modifying Therapies, Disease-Modifying Therapies for Dementia, Global Leadership, Global Outlook, Government Research Funding, GPs Taking Leading Role, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles, Improving Care for People with Dementia, Inappropriate Prescribing, Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, Information and Metrics, Integration of Health and Care, International Collaborations, International Dementia Research Inventories, International Framework for Dementia Research, International Programmes, Involvement and Participation, Join Dementia Research, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Local Dementia Action Alliances, Meaningful Care, National Audit of Dementia (Care in General Hospitals), National Audit of Dementia (NAD), National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2016-2017 - Third Round of Audit Report: Royal College of Psychiatrists (2017), NHS Health Check, NHS Health Check Programme, Non-Treatment Research, One You Campaign (PHE), Participation in Research, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient and Public Participation, Referrals, Regional Targets (Metrics), Research and Innovation, Research Funding, Risk Factors, Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Diseease, Risk Management, Royal College of Psychiatrists: National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Skills for Care (SfC), Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Support for Carers, Sustainable Care, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Well Pathway for Dementia
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More on the NHS Long Term Plan (DHSC / NHS England / BBC News / NAO / King’s Fund)
Summary The NHS Long Term Plan was released earlier this week. The plan is backed by the commitment of an extra £20.5 billion funding for the NHS per year. “The 10-year plan includes measures to prevent 150,000 heart attacks, strokes … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Transforming Care For Patients, Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme Delivers Fast Results, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles, Heart Patient Receives Life-Saving Support, High in Fat Salt and Sugar (HFSS), Homefirst Scheme, Horizon-Scanning, Hospital Stays for Alcohol-Related Harm (Adults’ Health and Lifestyle), Ian Dalton: Chief Executive of NHS Improvement, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Improving Population Health, Increasing Personal Independence Through a New Personalised Budget, Information Technology, Informed Choices About Health and Social Care, Informed Decision-Making, Innovative Approach to Intermediate Care in Doncaster, Innovative Children’s Hospital App Transforms Patient Care, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), Integrated Mental Health Care is Helping to Boost Employment Prospects, Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care, Integrated Prevention Approaches, International Recruitment, IPS Services, Joint Care From Community Stroke Team and Stroke Association’s Reablement Service - 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Dementia Research Centre in Wales (BBC News)
Summary A brief piece, from BBC News, on the work and aims of the £20 million Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University. Full Text Link Reference Clarke, O. (2018). Fruit flies’ brains studied to help crack dementia. London: BBC Health … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged BBC Health News, BBC Wales News, Biomarkers Research Programmes, Bioscience Careers, Brain Research Imaging Centre at Cardiff University (CUBRIC), Cardiff University, Dementia Action Plan for Wales: 2018-2022, Dementia Research, Dementia Research Careers, Dementia Research Institute (Cardiff), Dementia Research Institute (DRI), Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University, Drosophila melanogaster, Fruit Flies, Genetic Research, Immune Pathways and Stem Cell (iPSC) Models of Neurodegenerative Disease, Immunology, Inflammation, Inflammatory Response, National Dementia Vision for Wales, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Neurodegenerative Research, Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Abnormal Brain Development, Neuroinflammation, Neuroinflammation Research Cluster, Neuroscience, Research and Development, Research and Innovation, Research Careers, Research Commitment, Research Culture, Research Funding, Transgenic Drosophila, Vaughan Gething: Welsh Health Secretary, Welsh Government, Welsh Government Dementia Oversight of Implementation and Impact Group (DOIIG)
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Summary of Recent Progress in Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Trials (CTAD / JPAD)
Summary The following article summarises a round-up of present understanding and developments reflected in current and planned prevention trials, as discussed at a EU / US / Clinical Trials in Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) Task Force meeting, as of December 2016-7. … Continue reading →
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Quick Insights
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Tagged Accelerating Alzheimer's Research and Drug Development, Alzheimer's Disease Co-operative Study - Activities of Daily Living Scale (ADCS-ADL), Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Trials, Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative (API), Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative Study, Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI), Amsterdam IADL Questionnaire, Amyloid and Tau Imaging, Amyloid and Tau PET, Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s (A4) Study, Banner Alzheimer's Institute (Arizona), Biological Markers, Biomarkers, Biomarkers Predicting Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer's Disease, Blood Proteins as Biomarkers of Disease Research, Blood-Based Biomarkers, Blood-Based Biomarkers of Pre-Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Canada, CHU Toulouse (France), Cognitive Function Instrument, Cognitive Outcome Measures, Cogstate iPad C3 Battery, Collaboration for Alzheimer’s Prevention (CAP), Composite Measures (sic Cognitive Composites), Conversion to Dementia From Prodromal Disease, Dementia Prevention, Dementia Research and Drug Development, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction and Prevention, Denali Therapeutics (South San Francisco), Department of Epidemiology and Public Health: CHU Toulouse, DIAN-TU Study, DIAN-TU Trial, Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU), Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU), Drug Development for Alzheimer's Disease, Drug-Development Pipeline, EU/US/Clinical Trials in Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD) Task Force, EU/US/Clinical Trials in Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD) Task Force (December 2016 Meeting), European Medicines Agency, Everyday Cognition (E-Cog) Scale, F-31073 (Toulouse), F. Hoffmann-LaRoche Ltd (Basel), France, Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT), Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ), Gerontopole Toulouse: Toulouse University Hospital, Global R&D Partners LLC (San Diego), Harvard Medical School, Imaging, Inc. (New York), Informant-Reported Outcome Measures, Innovation Infrastructure, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease (JPAD), Keck School of Medicine: University of Southern California, Longitudinal Evaluation of Amyloid Risk and Neurodegeneration (LEARN) Study, McGill University, Molecular Imaging; Mild Behavioral Impairment, Multi-Domain Alzheimer’s Prevention Trial (MAPT), National Institutes of Health’s Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP), Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Neurodegenerative Research, Neurology (FDA), Next Generation (NexGen) Prevention Trial, NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (NIHTB-CB), Non-Invasive Biomarkers, Outcome Measures, Participation in Research, Patient Reported Outcome Measures, Pentara Corporation (Salt Lake City), PET, Pfizer, Plasma Biomarkers, Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease, Preclinical Alzheimer’s Cognitive Composite (PACC), Preclinical Biomarkers and Dementia, Preclinical Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease, Preclinical Indicators and Dementia, Preclinical Indicators in Alzheimer's Disease, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Agenda Linking Dementia and Other Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention Approaches, Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease, Promisary Science, Recruitment and Retention, Regulation and Drug Development For Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease, Research and Development, Research and Innovation, Research Commitment, Research Culture, Research Mapping, Research Networks, Research Promotion, Sharing Knowledge and Information, Slowing Progression of Disease (Stabilisation), Switzerland, Tau PET, Technology and Infrastructure Development, TOMMORROW Study, UMR1027 Inserm, United States, University College London, University Hospital of Montpellier, University of Southern California, University of Toulouse III, USA, Washington University School of Medicine
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Department of Health and Social Care: Big Picture Objectives (DHSC)
Summary This year the Department of Health was re-titled as the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), with a view to better integration. A single integrated plan clarifies the DHSC’s objectives for health and social care, and explains how … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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A Further Set-Back for Progress in Dementia Drug Development? (BBC News)
Summary Drug company Pfizer is to cease activity in its neuroscience drug discovery programmes, which will impact on ongoing research into drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease. Paradoxically the company does promise plans to create a new fund dedicated … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Management of Condition, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
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Research Towards a World Without Dementia: Marking World Alzheimer’s Day / World Alzheimer’s Month 2017 (Alzheimer’s Disease International / Department of Health)
Summary Information is available from Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) concerning World Alzheimer’s Month (September) and World Alzheimer’s Day 2017, which was on September 21st 2017. The theme for this year’s World Alzheimer’s Month campaign is again “Remember Me”. The UK … Continue reading →
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Funding for Research and Innovation in Health and Social Care (Department of Health / AHSNs / NHS Digital / MRC / UKRI)
Summary The government has announced new funding of up to £86 million for UK firms to develop and test new technologies in the NHS. This development is a follow-up to the Accelerated Access Review (AAR). This initiative for more rapid … Continue reading →
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Earlier Diagnosis Research: the Deep and Frequent Phenotyping Study (BBC News / GtR)
Summary The Deep and Frequent Phenotyping Study aims to discover new ways of diagnosing dementia, ideally decades before the symptoms become apparent in order to give future drug treatments the best chance of working. The Deep and Frequent Phenotyping Study … Continue reading →
Posted in Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Commissioning, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NIHR, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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